"8.3 name creation" - any good reason to disable it?

Is there ever any particularly good reason to dissable "8.3 name creation"
on windows 2008? Even with 300,000 - 400,000 files in a directory, I haven
not been able to get a performance difference between the two settings.
Assuming each file is atlest 1MB in size, is there any real additional
wear and tear on the hard drive when "8.3 name creation" is enabled?

Try asking them here. x-posted to: microsoft.public.storage

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"DR" wrote:
> Is there ever any particularly good reason to dissable "8.3 name creation"
> on windows 2008? Even with 300,000 - 400,000 files in a directory, I haven
> not been able to get a performance difference between the two settings.
> Assuming each file is atlest 1MB in size, is there any real additional
> wear and tear on the hard drive when "8.3 name creation" is enabled?

"Dave Patrick" <> wrote in message
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> "DR" wrote:
>> Is there ever any particularly good reason to dissable "8.3 name creation" on windows 2008? Even
>> with 300,000 - 400,000 files in a directory, I haven not been able to get a performance
>> difference between the two settings. Assuming each file is atlest 1MB in size, is there any real
>> additional wear and tear on the hard drive when "8.3 name creation" is enabled?
>
The directories need both LFN and generated SFN entries. It probably mattered 15 years ago.
You get spurious results from SFNs when you do "dir h???????.*".